A Contrastive Genre-Based Study of English and Indonesian RAIs in the History Discipline

Abstract

Genre studies of Research Articles (RAs) have increased over
the years. However, our review indicates that RA studies on
RAs in the history discipline are still limited both to English
and Indonesian languages. By identifying this gap, we are
encouraged to analyze their rhetorical structures in the
introduction section because this section plays an important
role in publishing RAs in journals. For analyzing the rhetorical
structure of both data sets, we employed the Create Research
Spaces (CARS) model (Swales, 1990). The results showed that
the rhetorical structures of English Research Article
Introductions (RAIs) are similar to the CARS model, while the
rhetorical structures of Indonesian RAIs in the present study
do not conform to the model. This finding implies that
Indonesian RAIs in the present study have different rhetorical
structures from those found in English RAIs both in the
present study and those in the CARS model.